Richard Cranch to John Adams, February 10, 1795

Quincy Feb y: 10 th: 1795.

Dear Brother

The enclosed Letter to the Hon ble: M r. Brown a Senator from Kentucky, I would ask the fav r. of you to deliver to him. It is about the late M r. Tho s. Perkins’s affairs, who died at Kentucky. I have desired M r Brown to inform me (when he has Leisure for it) what is become of the Lands that were located to M r Perkins, and whether or not there is any Estate of his remaining for his Heirs. I am in some degree interested, as I supply’d him to some amount when he first went to Kentucky, for which he engaged to interest me in a part of the Lands that should be located to him. The Hon ble: Harry Innes Esq r. (then Attorney Gen l. of the District of Kentucky) informed me, by Letter
of March 27 th. 1787, that Administration on M r. Perkins’s Estate had been granted to him. 1 If you should chance to have any oportunity of helping forward this matter by putting it into such a train as might produce the desir’d Information, I should thank you for attending to it.

I am, with all the Sentiments of Affection and Esteem that moral and intellectual Worth demand, your obliged Brother.

Richard Cranch.

P: S. Your Mother and M rs. Adams, with the rest of our Connections are well. M rs. Adams has rec d Letters from your Sons in Holland of the 13 th: of Dec r. , but I have not seen them. 2 Your Sons were well, and Holland not taken.